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| Iraq |
| Peshmerga question relationships with tribal leaders after series of attacks |
| 2016-08-05 |
| [RUDAW.NET] There have been five attacks in Kirkuk’s western area of Dubz in the last six months. Three of them were suicide kaboomers and two were boom-mobiles.Dubz’s police are confident that the attackers are coming from nearby Arab villages. "Honestly those villages behind Peshmerga [outposts] are secured. But they make trouble for us sometimes," Major Ahmad Ali Qader, head of Dubz’s police told Rudaw. "Those who have been jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! have relatives in Hawija. And some others are sleeper cells." According to security forces, those who have been arrested were either from the Arab villages or received support from the villages. The authorities of the city are now concerned about the friendships they have made with tribal leaders in the region.All the Arab villages are located behind Peshmerga outposts. "Cooperation between the Arab villages and ISIS [ISIS] gunnies is a serious threat," Kamal Kirkuki, Peshmerga commander of Kirkuk front said. "It is crucial that officials find a way to resolve the situation without violating human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... ," he added. The latest ISIS attacks on the Bai Hassan and AB2 oil fields are proof that ISIS sleeper cells get support from some Arab villagers, according to security officials. |
| Posted by:Fred |